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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:81:2

أَن

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَن Quranic text
Simple
أَن
Without tashkeel
أن
Normalised (searchable)
ان

Position

Computed
Surah
18 · The Cave
Verse
18:81
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:81:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
that
Transliteration
an
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
أَن
Part of speech
SUB
Features
—

Sub-word segments

  1. أَنstem · SUB

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 18:81 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

So we wanted their Lord to replace him with someone better in purity, and closer to mercy
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And we intended that their Lord should change him for them for one better in purity and nearer to mercy
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And we desired that their Lord might give them in his place a child, better than he in virtue, and nearer to filial piety
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange a better one than him in purity, and nearer in filial affection
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 461 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَن appears 461 times in the corpus.

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Community

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